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...Wildlife Conservation Society in New York, the World Wildlife Fund and Washington's Smithsonian National Zoological Park reports that tigers now occupy an area 41% smaller than a decade ago. The report warns that, over the next 20 years, tigers are poised to "disappear in many places, or shrink to the point of 'ecological extinction...
...Laughs] In 2000, Gary hired an ecologist, and Eco Posse was her idea--a group of people to teach people what it means to make a difference. Simple things, like putting in more recycling bins. One day she came into the office and said, "Why do we have this shrink wrap on the caddies that hold our bars?" And we had absolutely no idea. It was just the way we'd been doing things. So we took the plastic off. We saved 90,000 lbs. of plastic and $450,000 a year...
...Johnson, the Progressive Governor of California, but Johnson yearned not to run. He was sure that the Bull Moose Party would lose and that his career would be over. Johnson did not surrender until the last minute, after Roosevelt's men insisted that if the great T.R. did not shrink from defeat in a noble cause, no one else should either...
...never be metrosexuals, no matter what the magazine covers urge us to do-we just won't try hard enough, and we just don't care enough. Like a police state, the beauty industry seeks to instill in its customers a constant, free-floating sense of insecurity: you must shrink your enlarged pores, quench your dry skin, jam a burning candle down your ear and come back next month for another $150 appointment (the lemonade is free...
...half grown, he shipped them in diesel-fueled trucks to huge feedlots. There they were stuffed with corn and soy--pesticide treated, of course--and implanted with synthetic hormones to make them grow faster. To prevent disease, they were given antibiotics. They were trucked again to slaughterhouses, butchered and shrink-wrapped for far-flung supermarkets. "It was the chemical solution to everything," Taggart recalls...